Registration

Wikimania Hackathon 2016 Registration is closed as of 31 May, the event is at capacity.

In order to attend the hackathon, you must have registered for Wikimania and the Hackathon in advance.
If you are looking for other pre-Wikimania events and activities, please refer to the main Wikimania program.

People spend their time hacking on anything related to MediaWiki or one of the Wikimedia projects (and sometimes other things, too). The Hackathon events are completely open; we welcome both seasoned and new developers, as well as people working on MediaWiki, tools, pywikibot, gadgets, extensions, templates, etc. Interested technologists and hackers of all backgrounds are welcome at the Wikimania Hackathon. Prior experience with the MediaWiki software is not required. Translators with a linguistic background who can help improve language support for Wikimedia technology projects are also needed.

Program / Schedule information

The hackathon program changes continually throughout the event, therefor we do not print the program on paper. You will need a laptop or mobile device connected to wifi or data in order to access the program.

Hackathon Showcase

Do you want to Volunteer?

We can use some volunteer help at the hackathon! Please sign up below for anything you are interested in helping with

Staff the "help-desk"

Newcomers and people without projects will come to the help-desk to ask questions and find projects, sign up here if you are willing to help answer these questions during a portion of the hackathon. Add a quick sentence summarizing what you are willing to do!

Quiddity (WMF) (talk) - I'll be trying to keep track of who is working on what, so that people with questions can find people with answers.

Slashme (talk) - I have one specific project I want to work on, and the rest of the time I'll be willing to help out in the same way as Isarra.

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 03:46, 21 June 2016 (UTC) - I'll be milling about and checking in with the tables regarding IdeaLab and funding needs, so I can head the help desk for a time and direct folks appropriately.

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Help with Presentations

Help people put together their presentations for the Hackathon showcase, you can help with design work, video work, organizational help, presentation coaching. Add a quick sentence summarizing what you are willing to do!

Slashme (talk) I have experience doing presentations, I know how to use a range of presentation platforms (e.g. Prezi, LaTeX Beamer, etc.) and I have good English skills, so I can coach presenters who are not confident in English. I'm also OK with Blender, Inkscape and the GIMP, so I can help with graphic design and layout.

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Other volunteer offers

What can you help with!? We are open to new ideas!

Add your name here

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Participants

Add your information below if you are attending and would like to connect with others in advance of the Hackathon

Name

(real name or user name or both)

Contact Info

(IRC, phab, email, or however you prefer to be contacted)

Projects, interests & about yourself

(link your Phabricator task if you have it, why are you attending the hackathon and what do you hope to accomplish or learn)

Location at Hackathon

(To be filled out after the event has started, which room are you sitting in? What Table? How can other people find you?)

Rachel Farrand

rfarrand@wikimedia.org IRC: rfarrand

I am interested in talking about planning technical events, hackathons, the Developer Summit, the Wikimedia Engineering community, tech talks that you would like to run, and/or Mountaineering.

Flow, Echo, MediaWiki-Vagrant (Puppet), PHP and JavaScript (including on-wiki user scripts and gadgets) in general, Code of Conduct, etc. I will be leading the MediaWiki-Vagrant install party. I am always glad to answer questions, and if I don't know the answer, I can probably point you to someone who does.

I'm a UX designer on the Reading Team and this is my first Wikimania and Hackathon, so mainly keen to meet and work with Community members. Project interests would be to those related to improving the reading and editing experience on our mobile apps.

I work on translations tools and language support (i18n). I am happy to introduce people to these topics and help on issues related to them. I will also be working on translatewiki.net, so come to talk to me if you are working a tool that has an interface that could be translated.

I have a 360 camera with me if anyone want inspiration to work on Phabricator:T70719. Otherwise I'll work on a wordpress-admin-style mini pageview graph, getting ORES to svwp and better documentation for my Wikipedia quiz on Github.

I will work on boilerplates and examples for the all new Warper API. If anyone finds them self in need of help with this API(or others ones) I will be there to help.

Send me a email and I will come by to help out if needed. I will likely have my name printed on my back too so just catch me...

Dafna

email: dafna3@gmail.com, IRC: dafna-the-cool,

I started to work on a pywikibot that validate uniformity in all Hebrew wiktionary articles. Also, I have a chess board with me if you are interested in a break.

mail me or irc

Leszek Manicki (WMDE)

IRC: leszek_wmde,

I will be looking into improving Revision Slider extension. I am also glad to talk about things like PDF rendering, improving edit conflict resolution, or including page numbers etc in references. Just poke me to talk about things.

I'm a product manager for the WMF Discovery team, currently working on updating the wikipedia.org portal. This is my first Wikimania and I'm here to listen and chat about how we can better collaborate and learn together.

Recommended Items to Bring

Please note that the italian 10A socket will accept 2 pin Europlug but doesn't accept CEE7/4 (Schuko) or 7/6 (French Schuko) plugs. We have a number of power strips with both italian 10/16A and Schuko 7/4 sockets but we will not guarantee that there'll be enough free Schuko sockets available for everything (i.e. you should bring an adapter!). If you arrive from USA or a country with a power standard of 120VAC 60Hz, pay attention before using a simple adapter; here the standard is 230VAC, 50Hz! If the device will not accept a wide range of input power (normally laptop transformers have a wide range circuit inside) you could damage your device!